Digital Culture
The Quiet Rise of the Anti-Scroll Phone
A growing wave of users are paying to make their phones do less. Inside the minimalist software movement that treats attention as a resource worth protecting.
By Amara Chen · 7 min read
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Digital Culture
How AI and apps are quietly rewriting the way we live.
Digital Culture
Your Smart Speaker Heard More Than You Think Last Year
Voice assistants reshaped how we search, cook, and argue in the kitchen. We looked at what we actually say to them — and what happens to it afterwards.
By Tom Okafor · 8 min read
Digital Culture
AI Didn't Replace the Work. It Changed Who Gets to Do It
Two years into mainstream AI tooling, the pattern is clearer: routine work shrank, judgment work grew — and the barrier to shipping something real fell further than anyone predicted.
By Sofia Lindqvist · 10 min read
Digital Culture
How AI Is Quietly Doing Our Doomscrolling for Us
Feeds stopped merely ranking content and started composing it — hooks placed at the measured second, loops with no natural exit. What happens to attention when the algorithm optimizes your reflexes instead of your taste.
By Sofia Lindqvist · 9 min read
Digital Culture
The Dumb Phone Renaissance, One Year Later
A year ago minimalist phones were a curiosity. Now there's a supply chain, price inflation on decade-old feature phones, and a surprising truth about who actually sticks with one.
By Amara Chen · 8 min read
Digital Culture
Your Apps Know You're Burned Out. They're Adjusting.
Fragmented sessions, shallow clicks, 2 a.m. scrolling — burnout is one of the most legible states in behavioral data. What recommendation engines do with that signal, and why they can't tell care from capture.
By Sofia Lindqvist · 9 min read
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